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When: Tuesday, October 10 – Saturday, October 14

Where: Deree – The American College of Greece, Athens and Acropolis area/ Vrahakia

Organized by: The ACG Health & Wellness Center

This year’s theme is “Be Kind”. Through informative exhibits, talks & workshops, meditation sessions, cooking & eating as a team, and volunteerism, we will raise the awareness of the College community to the importance of being kind with one’s self, with others, with nature and all life forms.

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The Memory of Home Across the Aegean
Greek and Turkish Reflections on Loss

Eleftherios Venizelos Chair Lectureby Eleni Bastéa, PhD
Regents’ Professor of Architecture
Director of the International Studies Institute, University of New Mexico

When: Monday, October 9, 19:00

Where: John S. Bailey Library, Upper Level

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Eleni Bastéa (2017-2018)

Regents’ Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico (UNM), and Director of the International Studies Institute, UNM. Author of many articles, poems, essays, book chapters and books including: The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth (Cambridge University Press, 1999), co-winner of the London Hellenic Prize and a finalist for the Runciman Prize; Memory and Architecture (University of New Mexico Press, 2004); and Venice without Gondolas, a poetry collection (Finishing Line Press, 2013). The recipient of several grants and awards, she lectures internationally on memory and architecture, cities and literature, and on modern Greece & Turkey.

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What were the memories of home that the Greek and Turkish refugees of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and Population Exchange (1922-23) carry with them and how how did they transmit them to the next generations? Given the long history of co-existence between the Orthodox Greeks and Muslim Turks, can we hear some echoes of a common past in today’s cultures on both sides of the Aegean? In this illustrated lecture, we will examine how the memory of place and the power of loss shape, in part, both our history and our identity.

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A presentation byChristina Giakoumaki, PhD
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

When: Monday, October 9, 15:00–15:50

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2017-18 Series

Bio

Christina Giakoumaki graduated from the Department of Business Administration, University of Piraeus, completed her postgraduate studies at the Department of Marketing and Communication with New Technologies (MSc) at the Athens University of Economics and Business. In 2013 she received her Ph.D. with the completion of her thesis entitled “The Role of Consumer Advertising in B2B Products” at the School of Business Administration, Athens University of Economics and Business, where she subsequently did her Post-Doctoral research on the subject of “The Moderating Role of Involvement in Co-Branded Relationships”. She is currently teaching advertising courses at the American College of Greece, department of Communication, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as Quantitative research and Digital and Social Analytics courses at the School of Graduate & Professional Education, Deree. Her academic and research interests lay in the areas of contemporary industrial and consumer communication practices with a specific focus on marketing communications, digital & social media and web analytics in communication, ingredient branding and cultural branding, as well as advertising effects on relations between suppliers and industrial customers and consumers.

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INVOLVEMENT AS A MODERATOR IN ADVERTISING CO-BRANDED RELATIONSHIPS
Christina A. Giakoumaki, Deree — The American College of Greece
KEYWORDS: co-branding, involvement, advertising, experiment

This study aims to investigate the benefits of an advertising message focusing on a co-branding relationship, with the variation of consumer involvement, by employing a 2 x 2 experimental design, whereby two groups, after determining their level of involvement with the smartphone product category, subsequently evaluate the composite co-branded product offering (the treatment group after exposure to an ad communicating the co-branded relationship), in terms of attitude towards the brand (Ab). Using regression analysis, we determine the main and moderating effects of involvement on the co-branded product.

The present study considers the outcome of consumers’ exposure to an advertising message on the co-branding relationship of a composite product, which is evaluated through the assessment of attitude toward the composite brand (Ab), through the formulation of the following hypotheses:

A two-group between-subjects experimental design was chosen to test the aforementioned hypotheses, in which exposure to the advertising message (communicating the co-branding relationship) is the manipulated factor (independent variable). Pretesting helped identify the Huawei P9 Smartphone with a Leica dual lens camera as a consumer product that (a) is a composite/co-branded product, so that it can be subject of co-branded advertising, and, (b) has a sufficiently high variability of involvement levels among consumers.

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Maria Stylianidou, PhD
Member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Single Public Procurement Authority (HSPPA)

When: Thursday, October 5, 6:30 p.m.

Where: 17b Ipitou Street, Plaka, Athens

Organized by: Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs

For more information, please contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1107

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Maria Stylianidou, Doctor of Tax Law of the Law School of Athens, is a member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Single Public Procurement Authority – HSPPA. She has worked with international organizations as a member of working groups. She has written monographs and published scientific articles mainly in the field of tax law. Her recent monograph titled “Protection of Whistleblowers, officials in public sector – Whistleblowers in Ιinternational Οrganisations and States of Europe” was published by the publishers “NOMIKI VIVLIOTHIKI” in April 2017. She lectures at the Hellenic Open University and The National School of Public Administration and Local Government (ESDDA).

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A presentation byKaterina Diamantaki
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

When: Monday, September 25, 15:00–15:50

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2017-18 Series

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Katerina Diamantaki is Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator at the MA in Digital Communication and Social Media program at Deree, where she currently teaches the courses of Applied Communication Theory, Social Networks Behavior and Digital Media & Computer-Mediated Communication. Her scholarly expertise focuses primarily on New Media Studies from a socio-cultural perspective, but expands to other areas such as strategic communication, persuasion, audience research and memory/space studies. Dr. Diamantaki has participated in numerous research projects covering a wide range of topics, such as media representations, science communication, educational technologies, online political communication, locative media, the adaptive web, user experience, and the Internet of Things. She currently holds the position of Independent Expert in Community-building for the EU-Community project (7th Framework of the European Commission). Besides her academic career, Dr. Diamantaki also has extensive professional experience, having worked as a communications specialist for the European Parliament, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other social, political and scientific organizations.

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Facebook is today one of the most popular social media network sites in the world, integrated into the daily lives of a growing number of people across borders, generations and social groups. Thirteen years after it was founded, Facebook has acquired what Durkheim called “facticity”, as we are increasingly reliant on having a FB account. Recently and in a landscape of surging nationalism, fragmented public spheres and polarization, Facebook, has been mobilizing a positive vision of globalization and strategically positing itself as a “social infrastructure” that is able to effect wide-reaching social change and bring about an inclusive and informed “Global Community”. At the same time, Facebook is faced with the challenge of balancing between its multiple roles: What is Facebook, really? A social network? A media company? A tech company? A utility? An institution? A new political actor? A social movement?

This study examines the emerging and often contradicting roles of Facebook as a public entity, by means of a critical discourse analysis of its key formal public texts, messages and discourses. Adopting a framing and critical rhetoric lens, it seeks to examine how these communication texts function pragmatically and constitutively to structure Facebook’s social and institutional power, and how they reflect the company’s struggle both with other powerful actors, and with a set of contested issues, such as misinformation, diversity, or privacy. In order to understand Facebook’s evolving role as one of the world’s most powerful public entities, we need to engage not only on the ways issues are framed, but also on the intertwining of these discursive practices with the communicator’s identity and the wider sociopolitical context in which they are enacted.

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Discover Deree Day

Join us at Discover Deree Day and find out what makes Deree an excellent choice for your studies! Take a guided tour of the campus, sit in on a class, discuss your academic plans with faculty, and choose a world of opportunities! Discover the Deree advantage through an insightful presentation by students, alumni, professors, and Deree executives.

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A presentation byParaskevi Sarantidou, PhD
School of Business

When: Monday, July 17, 14:30–15:30

Where: Center of the Arts Auditorium

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2016-17 Series

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Paraskevi Sarantidou is an Assistant Professor in Marketing in the Business School of the American College of Greece. She has also served as the Head of the Marketing Department from 2006 to 2014. She holds a BSc in Business Administration and an MBA from California State University at Long Beach, USA, and a PhD from the University of Stirling, UK.

Paraskevi is a dynamic marketing professional with extensive experience and knowledge in the Greek business sector. She has held several marketing positions in the fmcg, and retail industry and was involved in many Paneuropean projects for the development of both existing and new products. During the last 18 years, she has committed herself to teaching and she is helping students understand in a practical way the application of the marketing theories and to relate new concepts to daily experiences. She has taught at both graduate and undergraduate level. Primarily she is teaching courses in Consumer Behavior, Retailing, Marketing Management, Marketing Metrics, Marketing Strategies, and Sales Management.

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This paper aims to explain loyalty with customer satisfaction as well as with a brand performance index that represents the strength of the retailer’s brand in the grocery setting and in a market under recession. The study is based on data collected through a telephone survey from 2,000 participants responsible for the household grocery shopping with a quota of 250 respondents from each of the leading grocery retailers in Greece. A formative measurement model was developed and the collected data were analyzed using Partial Least Square path modeling.

The findings confirmed that the strength of the retailer’s brand has a direct positive impact on loyalty and thus is a strong predictor of loyalty. Results also confirmed the direct positive impact of customer satisfaction to brand strength and loyalty. It is also suggested that the expectations and the perceptions towards the retailer’s product offering are the most important drivers of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Interestingly, the effect of indirect impact of expectations to customer satisfaction is greater than the direct effect. Furthermore, the study has proved the importance of the functional store attributes to customer satisfaction and loyalty in the grocery store setting.

Even though the study has confirmed the effect of the retailer’s brand strength and of customer satisfaction on loyalty, this cause-effect relationship is more complex. A limitation of this study is that it is exclusively undertaken in the Greek grocery industry, although it includes grocery companies with different characteristics and strategies. In addition, respondents were asked to respond for the retailer overall but their responses might be influenced by their experience with a specific store of the retailer. Future research to explore the findings from this research in other countries and in other industries is necessary. In addition, further analysis should be made in order to identify if there are significant differences among the different grocery retailers that were included in the sample. Also, the construct of brand strength should be conceptualized as a second-order construct since it will facilitate understanding of the formation process.

The author believes that the findings provide useful and relevant insights that are applicable to both academics and retail marketing professionals in the important and complex issue of customer loyalty.

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Join us at Discover Deree Day and find out what makes Deree an excellent choice for your studies!

Take a guided tour of the campus, sit in on a class, discuss your academic plans with faculty, and choose a world of opportunities! Discover the Deree advantage through an insightful presentation by students, alumni, professors, and Deree executives.

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When: Wednesday, June 28, 20:30
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When: Wednesday, June 28, 20:30

Where: Irene Bailey Theater

By invitation only

Deree – The American College of Greece will honor academic and extracurricular achievements of its students at the 19th Student Awards Ceremony to be held on June 28 at the Irene Bailey Theater. The event will celebrate the spirit of students who shine academically, creatively and morally and who have made the most out of their experience at Deree by challenging themselves academically and by making the difference as active members of the Deree community.

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A discussion by
Nikos Marantzidis
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A discussion byNikos Marantzidis
Professor of Political Science in the University of Macedonia
Scientific Coordinator at the Public Opinion Research Unit (PORU) of the University of Macedonia
Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague

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A presentation byGeorgia Miliopoulou, PhD
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

When: Wednesday, June 14, 14:30–15:30

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2016-17 Series

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Zozeta Miliopoulou, PhD, studied Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology in Thessaloniki and Athens. For 12 years she worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director for multinational agencies. In 2003 she won a top performance scholarship in the Cultural Management Graduate Program of the Panteion University where in 2008 she acquired her Ph.D. on cultural branding & communication. She participated in the Coca-Cola 2004 Olympic campaign; worked as a content manager and creator for large sites and portals; served as co-founder and head of creative content at Tenfour. She has taught in Panteion, the Cyprus University of Technology, the TEI of Athens and of the Ionian Islands, and in the School of Public Administration. She offers workshops on digital creativity, content, and storytelling and serves as a member in the WIB Committee of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce. Since 2015 she is a Full Time Assistant Professor at Deree ACG, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Communication, teaching courses in advertising, digital content and research.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine current trends and practices regarding brand communication in the social media, as brand activation in the online social environment rises and proliferates at a fast pace. Believing that further interdisciplinary contributions are needed to bridge the gap between brand management on the one hand and ICT potential on the other, we designed and implemented an exploratory research based on middle and senior-management executives, working both in companies who promote brands in the social media and in agencies who undertake social media projects and tasks. Results indicate that gatekeeping is an integral and very important aspect in the area of social media brand management, as most brands consider what to release rather than what not to, withholding information based on a narrow campaign-oriented mindset which reflects traditional marketing and public relations’ practices and has not embraced the requirements for transparency and openness that prevail in the digital and social media environment.

Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He is the author of eleven books of fiction, including the New York Times best-selling novels Independence Day and Canada. He is also an essayist and writes frequently for newspapers across Europe. His work has been translated into 28 languages and has won numerous international awards, including the Prix Femina in France, The Princess of Asturias Prize in Spain, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the United States. He is Emmanuel Roman and Barrie Sardoff Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University in New York City. He lives with his wife Kristina Ford in East Boothbay, Maine, in the United States.

Introduction by Dr. Haris Vlavianos, poet, translator and professor of History at Deree – The American College of Greece.

A festival open to Deree students, faculty, alumni, and the Athenian crowd. Visitors will have the chance to enjoy a multi-themed event, featuring a 60s prom party organized by six d.o.g.s., the Meet Market, a Tech Fair with the hottest names and the latest trends in technology and innovation, as well as cooking demos, wellness sessions, a tennis tournament, escape rooms, and more! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome (to) the first Deree Open Fest!

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A discussion byConstantinos Filis, PhD
Director of Research Programs, Institute of International Relation

When: Thursday, June 8, 6:30 p.m.

Where: 17b Ipitou Street, Plaka, Athens

Organized by: Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs

For more information, please contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1107

Constantinos Filis, PhD

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece Director of Research Programs, Institute of International Relations
Dr. Filis, is Head of the Centre for Russia, Eurasia and South-eastern Europe at the Institute of International Relations since 2005. He was elected in November 2007 and served for two years as Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford University. Between 2008 and 2010, Dr. Filis, was a Research Fellow at South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), Oxford University. In July 2012, he was appointed, by the Board of Directors, Director of Research Programs at the Institute of International Relations, of Panteion University. Between December 2013 and January 2015 he served as Chairman of Project Management Group at the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change. From mid-2013 to early 2015 he served as a Member of the Committee of the Center for Security Studies, where he examined the threat of forms of radicalism to national security. He has conducted a number of studies for public and private organizations and advised international and Greek corporations. Dr. Filis, currently lectures at the Hellenic Naval Staff and Command College and at the Hellenic National Defense College. He is also teaching in post-graduate degrees in Greek universities, emphasizing on geopolitics-geo-economics, energy and peace/Olympic studies. He is currently a member of the Greek-Turkish Forum, as well as the Greek-Russian Society and Director of the International Olympic Truce Centre. He recently published a book entitled Refugees, Europe, Insecurity, by Papadopoulos publications.

The quest for new spatialities shaped by the dynamics of the outdoor and public space, constitute part of the driving force behind some of the more recent developments in the field of Performance. That is, space is regarded as an open territory, an open system for the performance event, a boundless space in continuous process of emergence and metamorphosis. The Lecture Series brings a diverse group of distinguished artists under a common theme. Recognized nationally or internationally for their work. They are all invited to present their artistic work and initiate a purposeful discussion within our artistic community.

Guest Artists

Paris Legakis, is a multidisciplinary artist, activist, and theorist, researching how art can be beneficial for the society and influence politics. He has conducted field researches worldwide, experimenting with different art practices of social engagement that aim to reveal different perspectives of everyday life and foster the idea of social change. He has written the manifesto Claim Your Anger, on politics and political art, and he has created his own methodology called Irregular Temporary Interactions (I.T.I). He studied Performance Studies (MA) at NYU, where he was awarded for Outstanding MA Work. He also studied Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (MFA) at the Bauhaus University-Weimar, in Germany. Legakis’ research interests focus on memory and emotions, geopolitical and social borders, language, and translation.

Jennifer Nelson engages in acts of social and ecological choreography through a cross-disciplinary performance and art practice. She is committed to the playful realignment of social spaces through collective initiative, and to the transformative possibilities of the individual act. Among many influences, her work has been significantly shaped by her direct personal experience with disruptive or transitional world choreographies like the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the media aftermath of September 11th, and currently, the austerity measures and on-going economic hardship in Athens, Greece. Nelson studied New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received her MFA. She has exhibited in museums and festivals in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Recent projects have been on the streets of Athens and in Nestor, 1st Psychogeriatric Boarding House with the Guerrilla Optimists.

Francesco Kiàis is an artist, an independent art writer and curator. He is member of the curatorial board of the Venice International Performance Art Week and collaborates with different educational programs, both as a theoretician and as an artist. He recently created and co-founded a platform based in Athens and dedicated to performance art, the [MIND THE] G.A.P. – Gathering Around Performance. Currently he is holding a series of lectures on Performance Art at the Ionian University, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, as a visiting lecturer.

Vicky Spanovangelis is a London-Athens based Interdisciplinary practitioner, British chartered architect, choreographer, lecturer, and researcher. A design creative and independent artist, with 20 years of experience in the design & construction industry, and academic sphere of dance & architecture. Her career began as an architect, and in parallel pursued studies in contemporary dance, uniquely integrating dance with architecture. An established educator since 2001, teaching in various higher educational institutions with focus on mediatized spaces and choreography as inhabitable environments. A curator and design consultant with specific focus on cultural buildings and museum architecture, currently pursuing doctoral studies in Choreography and Architecture, developing choreography as a cultural practice for knowledge towards the social and sensory experience of the built environment.

Giorgos Zamboulakis is a theatre director, currently Professor of Acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory and the Artistic Director of The Experimental Theater of Thrace. Between the years 2007-2013, he has been teaching Acting at the Drama School of The National Theatre of Greece. The past twenty years he has been working as a Theater Director in theatres in Greece and Europe; amongst some of them are, the Greek National Theatre, the National Theatre of Iceland, and the Romanian National Theatre. He is specialized in Greek tragedy plays and Bertolt Brecht plays and has been working extensively with many twentieth century dramas. His latest one is, The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller and The Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. Many of his performances have been awarded as: Euripides’Bacchae -National Theatre of Iceland- Best performance 2006-2007, Landscape performance ‘tea time EUROPE’-Grand Prize at Man.In. Fest International Experimental Theatre Festival Romania.etc.

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A presentation byEvangelia Kyriakidou, PhD
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

When: Monday, May 29, 15:00 – 15:50

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2016-17 Series

Evangelia Kyriakidou, PhD
Part-Time Faculty, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Writing Program

Ptychion, University of Athens; MA in Literature, Culture and Ideology, University of Athens; PhD Candidate, University of Athens.

Evangelia Kyriakidou joined the Deree Faculty in 2014. She obtained her Ptychion from the University of Athens, Department of English Literature in 2005. She then pursued her studies on an IKY Scholarship (State Scholarship Foundation) getting an MA Degree in Literature, Culture and Ideology (2005-2007) from the Department of English Literature, School of Philosophy, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is currently working on her PhD thesis on “Space in the American Campus Novel.” Her research interests are spatial politics, space, and identity formation in American Literature.

She currently teaches three courses in the Writing Program: Introduction to Academic Writing, Academic Writing, and Academic Writing and Research. She annually attends several workshops and conferences to keep up to date with issues of effective classroom management, pedagogy, and academic writing.

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Evangelia Kyriakidou
ekyriakidou@acg.edu

Unhomely Maneuvers: Murder in the American Campus

Much has been written about the campus novel as a literary subgenre. Critics have mainly focused on campus novels as vehicles of social satire directed toward academia. However, in my presentation I will examine Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, focusing on the function of the campus as an uncanny, domestic space which, though “home” for students and faculty alike, does not always offer domestic security. In the current presentation, I will be looking into The Secret History, Tartt’s best-selling novel from 1992, analyzing how the domesticated campus, a place of knowledge and civilization can suddenly turn into a place where primitive instincts find vend thus unsettling a whole system of values. In The Secret History, as in other campus mystery novels, we find murder in the midst of a perfectly civilized and domesticated campus and that is when the ‘homely’ campus space becomes ‘unhomely’ and uncanny. In this presentation, I will attempt to unravel the intricacies of university spaces as both setting the rules of domesticity, and challenging them at the same time.

ARCHELON was founded in 1983 as the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece. Its mission is to protect sea turtles and their habitats through monitoring and research, developing and implementing management plans, habitat restoration, raising public awareness, and rehabilitating sick and injured turtles.

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Organized by: Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs – Office of Public Affairs
International Business Society

For more information please contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1107

His Excellency Khalid Usman Qaiser has served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to Greece since July 2016. Previously, he was Pakistan’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan & Georgia (2014-2016) and Tajikistan (2008 to 2011). During his diplomatic career of over 30 years, Qaiser has worked in various capacities in Pakistan Missions in Tunis, London, Budapest, and Berlin, before his elevation to the Ambassadorial rank in 2008.

While at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, he held various portfolios in the departments of North Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia, as well as Administration, International Conferences, and Economic Coordination.

He also served as Director General of the Foreign Service Academy in Islamabad where apart from young Pakistani diplomats, many foreign countries’ diplomats attend specialized professional diplomatic courses every year.

Ambassador Qaiser speaks English, French, Urdu, and Punjabi. He is married to Mrs. Asima Qaiser and they have two children.

Topic of Presentation: “Dynamics of South Asia”

Ambassador Qaiser will introduce the South Asian region and its dynamics. His presentation will cover the background of current challenges, and the new undercurrents. He will share his perspective on the present geo-political environment of the region that has far-reaching implications for the region and beyond. He will suggest ways to make South Asia a peaceful, stable and prosperous region going forward, and will also take questions from the audience.

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When: Tuesday, May 23 – Thursday, May 25

Where: Deree The American College of Greece

Open to the Public

The purpose of this symposium is to enhance student research and creative arts productivity at Deree by showcasing and celebrating student research, creative and artistic work. It further helps showcase the important work of faculty in supervising such work.

Undergraduate and graduate students present their work or independent research projects, either single or collaboratively produced, in the form of posters presenting laboratory or other applied research findings, research papers and oral presentations, creative works, visual art installations, musical and drama presentations.

Student participants have the opportunity to share their work with a diverse audience of peers and enhance their resume through participation in a professional meeting setting.

Most work exhibited is done by third and fourth year students, and is the result of work usually accomplished in capstone courses, internships, laboratory and studio courses, or other courses that require a substantial project, thesis or performance.

Chair/Moderator: Haralambos Papasotiriou
Professor of Strategic Studies, Department of International, European and Area Studies at Panteion University; Director of the Institute of International Relations

Georgios K. Filis
Adjunct Professor, Department of International Business, School of Business at Deree – The American College of Greece
Dimitris KeridisAssociate Professor of International Politics, Department of International and European Studies at Panteion University
Deputy Director of the Institute of International Relations (IIR)

Tuesday, May 9 – The Marshall Plan in Greece and Europe

17:30 – 17:45 Registration

17:45 – 18:30 “Rebuilding a Divided Continent: How the Marshall Plan worked in Greece and Europe”

19:00 – 19:30Blueprint for Progress (1965)
A documentary on the Marshall Plan from the historical archives of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation
Introductory Comments by Eleni Beneki
Head of Historical Archives Department, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation

19:30 – 20:00 Discussion

Chair/Moderator: Haralambos Papasotiriou

Ilias Iliopoulos
Adjunct Professor of Maritime History, Deree – The American College of GreeceEleftheria Daleziou
Reference Archivist/Historian, Gennadius Library Archives, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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An exhibition by Graduating students of the BA in Visual Arts degree program

When: Wednesday, May 3 – Friday May 12
Monday – Friday, 15:00–18:00

Where: ACG Art Gallery

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Open to all, with free admission

Opening: Wednesday, May 3, 19:00–22:00

For more information, please contact Niki Kladakis at 210 600 9800 ext. 1456, or at fineperformingarts@acg.edu.

The Visual Arts Department of the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts, presents its Annual Student Exhibition, featuring the work of 9 graduating students who will present their capstone projects.

The Exhibition will be accompanied by student projects in graphic design, sculpture, painting, drawing, digital image, and performance, that can be found in the Arts Center Gallery, Studios 201– 203 and surrounding outdoor spaces.

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A discussion by:
Dr. Ioannis Mazis

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A discussion by:Dr. Ioannis Mazis (FRSA-AMOPA)Professor of Economic Geography and Geopolitics
Chair of the Dept of Turkish & Modern Asian Studies
Director of Master’s Program of Geopolitcs, Geostartegics and Defense and Security Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence at Yale University. Author of a number of articles and books including The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996), and Modern Greece (Oxford University Press, 2015). Recipient of fellowships and grants as well as of several awards e.g. the Woodrow Wilson Award, the Luebbert Award, the European Academy of Sociology Book Award, and the J. David Greenstone Award.

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Discover Deree Day

Join us at Discover Deree Day and find out what makes Deree an excellent choice for your studies! Take a guided tour of the campus, sit in on a class, discuss your academic plans with faculty, and choose a world of opportunities! Discover the Deree advantage through an insightful presentation by students, alumni, professors, and Deree executives.

Senator Steineger and the audience will discuss demographic trends and changing public opinion and voting patterns with American people since after WW2, culminating in the elections of Donald Trump and a forecast of where America will go in the next four years. Afterwards, we will have at least 30 minutes of Q&A for the audience participants to ask questions.

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Kansas State Senator Chris Steineger, from Kansas City, Kansas, was elected in 1996 – 2012. He served 14 years as a Democrat and in 2010 switched to Republican. He has experience at all three levels of American government, including staffing for a U.S. Congressman in Washington, 1988-89; in the City Managers office in Kansas City, with the Kansas State Department of Revenue .

Senator Steineger is retired from politics and is now a guest lecturer for Universities and U.S. Embassies abroad. He has visited 53 countries include Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Mexico, India, Israel, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, & Cuba. He specializes in explaining American government, contemporary politics, and trends in public opinion for foreign audiences.

Senator Chris Steineger is in Greece as a 2017 Fulbright Specialist. He will provide lectures and seminars to students and faculty on American government and contemporary political issues in collaboration with: the Panteion University in Athens, the University of Peloponnese (Corinth), the University of Piraeus, the Institute of International Relations (IDIS), the American College of Greece Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs and the Navarino Network (Thessaloniki). With the support of the Fulbright Foundation in Greece.

The Fulbright Foundation in Greece awards grants to both Greek and US citizens to enable them to study, teach or conduct research in either the US or Greece. For more information on the Fulbright Program in Greece see www.fulbright.gr

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It’s a great pleasure to welcome more than 700 student-athletes, coaches, and administrators, from 11 universities and 4 countries, to the ACG 2017 INTERNATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL! They will have the opportunity to experience healthy competition in sports, while making new friends and interacting with different cultures.

We wish to all success in the games and a memorable stay at The American College of Greece!

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Lecturer:
Constantine A. Papadopoulos, PhD
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Lecturer:Constantine A. Papadopoulos, PhD
School of Business, Deree – The American College of Greece
Member of the Academic Board, Institute of Diplomacy and Global Affairs – The American College of Greece

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Running with theme “Crossing Disciplines”, this year’s Business Week will take place on March 14–17, 2017. The theme, selected by students of the Deree School of Business, is intended to elicit valuable contributions to the increasingly relevant imperatives of cross-subject knowledge, synergies between sectors and industries, and versatility as a vital outlook for both businesses and employees.

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A roundtable discussion presented and moderated by
Dimitris Lazopoulos, Instructor of Finance.

When: Monday, March 13, 15:00 – 15:50

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2016-17 Series

Bio

Bachelor in Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business; Master in International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Colombia University.

Lazopoulos has been an instructor at the Department of Accounting and Finance, and the Department of International Tourism and Hospitality Management, at the Deree School of Business since 2000. Since 1987, Lazopoulos has held managerial positions in international banks in the field of wealth and asset management in Switzerland, Holland, and Greece, before establishing his own consultancy office in Athens in 2000.

His research focuses on the following areas: financial markets, valuation analysis and techniques, hospitality economics, developmental economics, distressed macro-analysis, and the philosophy of mathematics.

Abstract

The central idea presented is based on a 2015 ACG Review article, and it is that the collapse of the Greek economy was a predictable event, and that it was only a matter of time before it happened.

After a long-term developmental cycle of approximately 55 years with relatively high growth rates, the economy of Greece was due for an inevitable correction. From this point of view, the international debt crisis of 2007 simply exacerbated the local economic fall and the bursting of the financial bubble; it was only the pretext, not the real reason behind the country’s local financial havoc.

The theoretical foundation of this thesis, presenting the megacycle financial destiny of Greece from a new perspective, is based on the Kondratiev economic super cycles of the Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev.

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On the occasion of the publication the latest book by Tasos Avrantinis
Discussion byTasos Avrantinis
Lawyer and Vice President of DRASIAndreas Andrianopoulos
Director, Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs, The American College of Greece

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A presentation byH.E. Mrs. Anna Barbarzak
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Greece

When: Tuesday, March 7, 13:40–15:00

Where: John S. Bailey Library, Upper Level

Organized by:Institute of Diplomacy and Global Affairs (IDGA) – Office of Public Affairs
International Business Society

Anna Barbarzak is a career diplomat.

She joined Polish diplomatic service in 2001. Since this time she worked in the Department for Security Policy, managing NATO enlargement and Partnership for Peace policy.

Between 2006-2007 she worked in the Polish Mission to UN and International Organizations in Geneva – where she was responsible for Disarmament and Non-proliferation issues.

In 2007 she was assigned at the Polish Embassy in Washington DC, where she worked in the Economic Section, responsible for energy and climate policy.

After her return to Warsaw in 2011, she was nominated Head of the Unit of Contacts at the Office of Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Since 2013 until November 2015 Ms. Barbarzak Headed the Department for Economic Cooperation, where she was responsible for economic promotion and economic diplomacy. In this capacity she supervised and coordinated many projects related to economic bilateral cooperation, as well as EU trade and investment policies and energy security issues.

Mrs. Barbarzak graduated from Warsaw School of Economics. She holds Master’s degree in Economics and International Relations. She also completed post-graduate studies in Geneva Center for Security Policy.

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When: Friday, March 3 – Friday, March 11

Where: Deree – The American College of Greece

Organized by: the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Free Admission

The Arts Festival 2017, organized by Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts, is launched on March 3.
The arts will be celebrated on campus until March 11, with cultural and educational events open to the public: exhibitions, concerts, performances, as well as masterclasses and workshops offered by Deree faculty members and invited artists and lecturers.

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 3

18:00–22:00 | “Keep on Keeping on. A Visual Meta-Collection”, Exhibition Opening
ACG Art GalleryCurated by guest curator Evita Tsokanta in collaboration with the Art History, Graphic Design, and Visual Arts programs, and Galini Notti (ACG Art Collection). A number of parallel events will be organized in relation to this exhibition.

TUESDAY, MARCH 7

13:40–14:55 | “Futuracha Pro – a creative journey from a typography class to thousands of users around the world.” Graphic Design Lecture by Høly Branding AgencyNew Painting StudioFuturacha Pro is an Open Type Font that magically adjusts and readjusts as you write, based on the preceding and following letter. Although designed in 2012 as an experimental display font aiming at giving people the chance to explore and create, Futuracha became unexpectedly popular and loved by the whole world due to its quirkiness and eccentricity.

13:40–14:55 | Discussion with Visual Arts alumniStudio 202 (AC)Visual Arts alumni discuss their professional life with moderator Effie Halivopoulou. Alumni will present a record of their professional life and discuss their experience of graduate work.

16:30–18:00 | Workshop by Thresh Dance CompanyDance Studio, GymThe workshop explores the relationship between Dance and Music in the Indian classical form of Bharatanatyam.

17:00–20:00 | “Who is the Stranger Now?…” The advent of foreign… in our body, in our country, in our minds… / Theatre Workshop by Barbara DoukasBlack Box TheatreA unique opportunity to participate in a theatre workshop led by renowned director B. Doukas. The workshop will close with a sharing of the work, open to the public, on Friday, February 10, at 20:30.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8

09:30–15:00 | Arts @ Deree Day, all FRSFPA Programs Black Box TheatreA day specially designed for high school students to get a “taste” of arts and performing arts studies at college level. A variety of workshops and seminars delivered by our faculty from the Art History, Contemporary Dance Practice, Graphic Design, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts programs. 13:30 – Schools performance “Études /Stories by Hand” by Thresh Dance Company

13:00–14:30 | Music Theatre Workshop I
7th Level AuditoriumA workshop on development of character in Musical Theatre through movement and expression offered by Themelis Glynatsis, Effi Minakouli, Maira Milolidaki, and Cindi Trent. Open attendance. Please register in advance to participate as space is limited. Contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1456, 1427

15:00–19:30 | Music Theatre Workshop II
7th Level AuditoriumA workshop on awakening the consciousness of an “acting body” on stage and its many ways to relate to emotion and impulse. Students will perform scenes from W.A. Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. Led by Themelis Glynatsis, Maira Milolidaki, and Effi Minakouli. Open attendance. Please register in advance to participate as space is limited. Contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1456, 1427

17:00–18:30 | Performance Workshop by Sami AmirisSound StudioAn introductory workshop on Solkattu – the South Indian rhythmic language – in the context of the Performance Workshop class. No registration required.

Thresh is a performing arts collaborative founded in 2004 by Preeti Vasudevan, a leading exponent of the classical Indian dance (Bharatanatyam). Thresh brings to the festival two recent works: “Études,” a dynamic dance dialogue between an Indian classical dancer and a ballet that redefines classical movement, and “Stories by Hand,” a dance theatre piece in which the hand gestures of Bharatanatyam interweave east and west, past and present, the mythic and the everyday.

The American College of Greece is pleased to present the exhibition “Keep on Keeping on. A visual meta-collection,” curated by Evita Tsokanta, invited independent curator. The exhibition is part of this year’s Arts Festival, an annual event organized by the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at Deree. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday, March 3, 18:00–22:00, at the ACG Art Gallery.

“Keep on Keeping” on consists of a selection of historical works and artefacts of the ACG collection alongside recent works by young Greek and international artists, including new commissions and finally the outcome of collaborations with senior students of the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts.

The multifaceted ACG collection has been created through time by a series of donations and acquisitions, under the aegis of different people of possibly opposing agendas, marked by various aesthetics. By juxtaposing selected works of the collection with a number of contemporary artworks, through curatorial gestures that gently balance the absurd and the poetic, “Keep on Keeping on” reveals hidden connections as seen through the prism of today’s knowledge, and demonstrates the obscure unity of a contemporary art collection: the ecumenical anthropocentric element.

The exhibition attempts to expand preconceived perceptions of visual language, both in terms of the artwork as well as the framework of the contemporary art exhibition itself. By exhibiting seemingly random objects together, the sense of the unexpected is provoked. The viewer’s gaze is forced into a state of willing suspension of disbelief, and urged to deconstruct anew the purpose, meaning, and symbolic value of each exhibit.

“Keep on Keeping on” acts as an encouragement to reassess the authority that determines artistic value. By demonstrating the many sources and numerous vocabularies by which art can and is produced, it becomes the object of universal assertion. Ultimately, it argues for a reclaiming of one’s power to speak about oneself, while embracing the possibility of the proverbial failure as an essential element of self-definition. This ode to the self-referential hopes to motivate and enable the subject to actively participate not only in the appreciation, but even in the development of artistic content.

It’s an exhibition about making an exhibition, about producing and consuming art, about acceptance of organic human evolution and, ultimately, about recognizing the universal drive of creativity in every aspect of life. As Henry Miller stated, “To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”

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Discussion byAlexis Heraclides, PhD
Professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution Social and Political Sciences, Panteion University

When: Thursday, March 2, 6:30 p.m.

Where: 17b Ipitou Street, Plaka, Athens

Organized by: Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs

For more information, please contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1107

Bio

Alexis Heraclides, PhD, (born in 1952 in Alexandria) is a Greek academic, currently Professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. Previously, he served as a Counselor on human rights and minorities at the Greek foreign ministry (1983-1997) and, in that capacity, participated in a number of norm-setting intergovernmental conferences on human rights and minorities, notably in the context of the CSCE (Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe).

He has studied Political Science and International Relations at Panteion, at the University of London (MSc at University College) and at the University of Kent (PhD). His main publications cover: intervention in secessionist conflicts; self-determination; ethnicity and nationalism; the CSCE; Greek foreign policy and specific conflicts, mainly from a conflict-resolution perspective, such as Kosovo, Southern Sudan, the Kurdish question, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Cyprus Problem and the Greek-Turkish conflict with emphasis on the Aegean dispute.

Dr. Heraclides has written over 60 papers in academic journals, as well as having edited 6 books in English and 10 in Greek, including:

The Self-Determination of Minorities in International Politics (London: Frank Cass, 1991).

Background

Brain-damaged people exist in large numbers. Globally, about 40% of people who sustain brain damage resulting from various etiologies will never recover sufficiently to return to their daily activities, mainly due to cognitive deterioration in a differential effect. Acquired neuropathies arising from head injuries, dementias, cerebral tumors, types of encephalitis, cerebrovascular diseases, alcohol abuse and surgical interventions impact patients’ lives and place a great burden upon their families, upon the national health services and upon the entire society.

To what extent can lost functioning be understood, predicted, assessed or restored? Is “regeneration” of brain tissue possible? In the neurosciences, brain damage is traditionally considered a unitary concept. To this end, a contemporary approach to the understanding, assessing or treating cognitive impairment resulting from brain damage must combine several subfields: cognitive psychology, clinical neuropsychology, as well as behavioral science.

In this context, four members of the Department of Psychology at Deree present major conceptualizations of brain-behavior links, and discuss their current research interests and perspectives radiating from their experimental, as well as clinical experiences. Based on their research findings, they document why the diversity in perspectives between the prevailing views in the brain sciences is a road worth travelling.

Presenters

Dr. Ion Beratis

Dr. Beratis has obtained his degrees from the Departments of Psychology and Medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the University of Edinburgh, in the domains of neuropsychology, psychophysiology, and psychometrics.

He has explored cognitive impairment in various neurological and psychiatric populations, the role of environmental risk factors in schizophrenia, and the non-pharmaceutical interventions in dementia.

Dr. Beratis’ current research interest focuses on the assessment of cognitive decline referred to as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) which is exhibited in transitional states between normal aging and dementia as well as on the gains in cognition through combined cognitive and physical training.

Dr. Mary Canellopoulou

Dr. Canellopoulou studied Psychology at Deree – The American College of Greece, and Clinical Cognitive Neuropsychology at Brunel University, London. She has clinical training in neuropsychological screening at the Centre of Health, Sickness and Disablement, UK, and in memory rehabilitation programs at St. Thomas Hospital.

Since 1997, she has been an Assistant Researcher under the clinical supervision of Professor K. Koumakis at the Neurological Department of Athens Euroclinic. She has conducted research on placebo analgesia and on the detection of cognitive impairment in organic brain syndromes such as multiple sclerosis, the Korsakoff syndrome, and subclinical hepatic encephalopathy.

Her current research interest focuses on the understanding of neurocircuity in anorexia nervosa for flexible cognitive treatments development.

Dr. Dimitris Kasselimis

Dr. Kasselimis is a trained clinical neuropsychologist with a solid background in biology from the University of Patras, the University of Crete, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He serves as a Research Associate at Eginition University Hospital.

He has been researching the learning and memory deficits in strokes and various neurodegenerative diseases. His current research interest focuses on the identification of clinical and demographic prognostic factors in post-stroke aphasia as an acquired neurogenic disorder with massive impact on patients’ neuropsychological status and daily functioning, by using clinical and neuropsychological psychometric tools.

Dr. Eleni Konsolaki

Dr. Konsolaki completed her graduate and postgraduate studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and she has specialized in cognitive science, statistics, and neuroscience.

Her research focuses on the selective vulnerability of neural circuits in the brain and their dynamic relationship with cognitive and behavioral changes. She has systematically explored various levels of the brain-behavior interplay such as: behavioral genetics in dementia, neuronal morphology in aging, gender differences in brain activity, and memory deficits in depression. Currently, she works on neuromodulation projects at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens.

Paschos Mandravelis studied Economics and Media. Now he holds a daily column on politics, society and economics in the daily newspaper “Kathimerini”. He authored five books, and co-authored many more. The last book he co-authored is “On violence. The ideological component” (2012, Polis Publications)

Workshop Description

Dr. Kessler will share a number of recent developments related to language and technology, including: automated assessment tools, speech and gesture control interfaces, and a variety of forms of natural language processing.

Some of the tools and resources associated with these developments have found their way into the classroom while others certainly will in the near future.

Many of these developments have the potential to threaten or intimidate language instructors. The presenter will share thoughts about the need to embrace these developments as we move toward a new era of language instruction; one that is enhanced through the use of these intelligent assistants, yet one that still requires language instructors.

Greg Kessler, PhD

Dr. Greg Kessler is the director of the Language Resource Center, and associate professor of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in the Department of Linguistics at Ohio University. He is also an affiliated faculty member in Instructional Technology at the College of Education.

His research addresses technology, language, language learning, and associated human behavior. He has published and presented widely in the area of CALL and has had the great privilege to conduct seminars about the convergence of language and technology around the world. He is currently editor of the Action Research Column for the journal Language Learning & Technology and past president of the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). He has served as CALL Interest Section Chair for the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and president of Ohio TESOL.

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When: Tuesday, February 7, 10.00–13.30
Where: John S.

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When: Tuesday, February 7, 10.00–13.30

Where: John S. Bailey Library, Upper Level

Organized by:ACG Institute of Diplomacy and Global Affairs, School of Business at Deree – The American College of Greece; Department of Political Studies, Collegium of Socio-Economics, Warsaw School of Economics; ALIEN Project; EUMIGRO Project; Warsaw School of Economics; Innovathens, Technopolis City of Athens

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A lecture by:
Susan Stetson, PhD
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

When: Monday, February 6, 15:00 – 15:50

Where: 6th Level Auditorium

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2016-17 Series

Bio

Susan Stetson holds a PhD in Education focusing on Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University, Minnesota. Her scholarly research interests include learner motivation, cognitive load, and using collaborative tools in teaching and learning. She particularly focuses on the achievement-goal theory of motivation in examining the use of digital achievement badges as formative assessment feedback, while she has also written about using wikis as a tool to scaffold academic writing.
Dr. Stetson began teaching at Deree in 2006 in the English for Academic Purposes Program, and the MA in TESOL program. As an instructional designer, she has helped design and develop blended courses in the Graduate School, and is a co-facilitator of the asynchronous Online Faculty Training course.

Abstract

The study investigated the impact of digital achievement badges on undergraduate learners in liberal studies courses. The study was based on a framework of behavioral underpinnings, achievement-goal theory, and innovative instructional design strategies. This quasi-experimental study involved four sections of the undergraduate course “Psychology as a Social Science”.

Following a pre-test questionnaire to establish self-reported levels of motivation in the course, participants had the option to complete five multiple choice formative assessments on Blackboard as a part of their normal coursework, aimed at improving their understanding of the course content. For two sections, the possibility of earning or upgrading a digital achievement badge accompanied assessment scores of 80% or higher, while the other two sections received assessment scores only.

Following a post-test, motivation levels of the control and treatment groups were compared to determine whether there was a difference in motivation levels for those receiving digital achievement badges with their scores. The study also looked at whether treatment group motivation differed by gender or planned major, and whether learners in the treatment group attempted the online quizzes more than those in the control group.

Findings revealed no significant differences in the motivation levels of the control and treatment groups. Findings in this study add empirical evidence to inform instructors’ and instructional designers’ decisions about the use of digital badges to prevent those decisions being based solely on trends or notoriety of techniques which need further investigation.

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A presentation on current developments in the Eastern Mediterranean region and Israeli-Greek relations by:H.E. Mrs. Irit Ben-Abba VitaleAmbassador of Israel to Greece

When: Tuesday, January 31, 13:40-15:00

Where: John S. Bailey Library, Upper Level

Organized by:Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs – Office of Public Affairs
International Business Society

Israel was established 68 years ago. It has a population of 8.5 million, out of which 20% are non-Jews, Moslems, Christians, Druze and others, all of which are Israeli citizens. The Jewish population comprises of people who immigrated to the historical Land of Israel from all parts of the world, after 2000 years of exile. The challenges of social cohesion are immense. The security challenges are massive.

The Middle East geopolitical structure that was formed 100 years ago is collapsing, the Arab Spring did not bring a wave of democratic struggle to the region, but total collapse of the old regimes, and the total disintegration of state structures, giving way to the emergence of non-state entities that create a chaotic situation in our region, the repercussions of which affect whole of Europe.

Israel and Greece have enjoyed friendly bilateral relations in the last few years, that are a direct consequence of the fragile situation in the East Mediterranean. As democracies, we share common practices of social and political structure and, as countries of a long history of ancient civilizations, we appreciate the rule of law and prosperity to our people and nations.

On Tuesday, January 31 2017, at 13:40-15:00, the Ambassador of Israel to Greece, Her Excellency Irit Ben-Abba, will deliver a speech on the challenges Israel is facing today, and on Israel-Greece relations as a stabilizing factor in the East Mediterranean.

BS in Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; MS in Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; PhD, The University of the Aegean.

Eleni Patra has been a faculty member of the Deree Department of Management since 1990. She has taught and developed several courses in Management and Organizational Behavior, especially in Human Resource Management and Labor Relations, Entrepreneurship, and International Human Resource Management. Dr. Patra has experience as a Labor Mediator and Arbitrator, and as a Human Resource Professional in major organizations and consulting firms.

Dr. Patra is active in research, attending several seminars per year in her area of interest. She has published articles in international journals, authored chapters in books, and participated in international conferences. Previous research (published in 2012), includes: “Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining in Times of Crisis: The Case of Greece”, published by the International Labour Organization, and “Current Situation and Future Trends of the Industrial Relations System and Trade Unions in Greece,” (with A. Nikolopoulos) published in the journal Management Revue.

Abstract

The 2010 financial crisis in Greece and the consequent compliance by the Greek government to the memorandums signed with the Troika in exchange for a bailout, had a severe impact on Greek labor and employment relations. This paper examines the transformation of the industrial relations system in Greece during the first six years following the financial crisis. More specifically, it will examine recent trends in collective bargaining structures, i.e. new actors entering the collective bargaining scene, either by need of the represented industry or legislation. It will also analyze the changes in collective bargaining outcomes in terms of level and number of collective agreements, coverage rates, and content of agreements, including wage developments.

The paper was presented at the 11th European Regional Congress, organized by the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), in Milano, 8-10 September, 2016.

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A lecture by:Dr. Dimitris A. SotiropoulosAssociate professor in Contemporary History & Politics, director of the Postgraduate Program “Governance & Economics” (University of Peloponese) and editor-in-chief of NEA HESTIA journal

When: Thursday, January 19, 6:30p.m.

Where: 17b Ipitou Street, Plaka, Athens

Organized by: Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs

For more information please contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1107

Short Bio

Dr. Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos was born in Athens, 1972. He is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History and Politics at the School of Administration and Economy of the Higher Technological Institute of Peloponnese since 2014, and has been a visiting professor and assistant professor there since 2003. He is also Director of the Postgraduate Program “Governance & Economics” at the University of the Peloponnese.

Dr. Sotiropoulos is editor-in-chief of the journal NEA HESTIA, as well as a member of the scientific committee of the journals Philosophein, and Foreign Affairs, The Hellenic Edition, and is a columnist of the daily newspaper Kathimerini.

He is the editor of four collective volumes concerning mid war and contemporary politics in Greece and Cyprus, and a member of the scientific committee organizing the “Institutions & Public Policies in Contemporary Greece” conference held every two years. He was invited, during the second semester 2011-12, to lecture at Harvard University – Program of Modern Greek Studies (George Seferis Chair), about post war politics.

Dr. Sotiropoulos was also a scientific advisor for the historical documentary, The Making of the Greek National State, 1760-1832, as well as for a historical documentary concerning Greece in the 1974-2010 period, both of which were broadcasted on E.R.T.

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Organized by:IT Department, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
CIS Department, School of Business

Speaker: Armen Pischdotchian, Academic Tech Mentor, IBM Watson

Audience: Faculty, students

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Let us explore the cognitive era and the role that algorithms play in the API economy: Netflix recommends movies from the long tail, Amazon recommends the popular, cars that learn when to take over a vehicle that is in front, robots that distinguish trash from dishes to be washed. In this lecture, let’s uncover the “blackbox” that lurks behind artificial neural networks powering IBM Watson cognitive services that enables the magic of machine learning. Let’s construct the stochastic gradient descent algorithm. How fitting that we will end the lecture with a glimpse into year 2020: the rise of the bots and the sunset of apps, natural language interface elbows out application programming interface, blockchain is now in the fabric of bots and nuclear fusion is fueling the power grid.

Bio

Armen Pischdotchian currently mentors university faculty and students and conducts enablement sessions for both IBMers and partners pertaining to the IBM Watson Solution offerings. Armen has consulted and deployed various cognitive solutions at universities around the world. Armen started at IBM 11 years ago as course developer and trainer for the IoT solutions. He holds a BS in Organizational and Behavioral Psychology, MS in Computer Science and an MBA in Computer Information Systems. Armen writes in the Medium.com online publication and has co-authored IBM Red Books. He also holds an IBM Certified Application Developer – Watson V3 Certification and is a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM).

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A lecture by:
Ilias Iliopoulos PhD
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A lecture by:Ilias Iliopoulos PhD
Professor of Naval History and Strategy of Seapower, Hellenic Naval War College
Adjunct Professor of Maritime History, Deree – The American College of GreeceMember of the Academic Board, Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs – The American College of Greece

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Discover Deree Day

Join us at Discover Deree Day and find out what makes Deree an excellent choice for your studies!

Take a guided tour of the campus, sit in on a class, discuss your academic plans with faculty, and choose a world of opportunities! Discover the Deree advantage through an insightful presentation by students, alumni, professors, and Deree executives.

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Organized by: Students of the Advanced Directing course, the Theater Arts Society, and the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Entrance: Free

About the Directing Festival

For the Advanced Directing course of the Bachelor of Arts degree program in Theater Arts, students are challenged to explore, choose, and apply theater methodologies in order to embody their vision of a play. Experimenting with new forms and ideas, organizing and presenting a play, collaborating and solving issues, prepares students for a professional career.

The festival is organized by the students of the Advanced Directing course to present their projects/performances. All four works are based on theatrical texts that the four directors have selected and used differently. Part of their work was to create a performance within a 30-minute time frame.

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A lecture byPeter Zervos

When: Monday, December 5, 15:00 – 15:50

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2016-17 Series

Peter Zervos holds a PhD in English Literature with an emphasis on Renaissance poetry, poetics, and literary theory, and an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis on poetry, from Indiana University Bloomington.

His scholarly research focuses on issues of imitation, metaphor, allegory, representation, figurality and fictionality, as well as on power dynamics and modes of subjectivation in the poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. He is particularly interested in the influence of Platonism and Neoplatonism on poets such as Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, and his critical approach is informed by theorists such as Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. His dissertation on Plato and Shakespeare has a two-fold goal: to propose a mode of reading pre-Romantic lyric by reference to the narrative of the origin of lyric, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and to read Shakespeare’s Sonnets through the lens of the Platonic dialogues that focus on Eros (love/desire), mimesis (imitation/representation), eikos mythos (plausibility/likely story), and poiesis (poetry, in the general sense of “making”).

Peter Zervos has been working at Deree for three years. During this time, he has taught a wide variety of classes, ranging from the three writing courses, to courses on American and English literature, as well as a creative writing course which he has also designed. Furthermore, Dr. Zervos has taught in and designed courses for the International Honors Program.

Abstract

The first chapter of my dissertation*, titled “Daemonic Rhetoric: the Homeric Hymn to Hermes as Lyric Paradigm,” performs a close reading of the Hymn and proposes a redefinition of lyric poetry, in an attempt to move beyond various contemporary, typically post-Romantic conceptions of it. More specifically, it uses the Platonic notion of plausibility (eikos mythos), as an example of the ontological modality of the “between” (metaxy), and Giorgio Agamben’s theory on the paradigm (paradeigma) in order to argue that Hermes’ performances in the Hymn introduce, by way of example, a specific type of discourse, lyric discourse, that vacillates between truth and falsity, oath and blasphemy, epideixis and persuasion. Such a discourse moves and moves us in the gap/space between aesthesis and ethos, by placing aesthetic pleasure and persuasion in a simultaneously reciprocal relation. It clings to the phenomenality of language but also actively points at its context (para-deixis). Its “truth” is more of a function, and less of a positive presence. Its typical occasion-context is the symposium, and its mood that of convivial teasing and irresistible erotic desire. It is a performance that constitutively yokes speaker and addressee together, and collapses horizon of reception and subject-matter into one moment.

* The dissertation is titled Eros and Eikos Mythos: Love and Plausibility in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

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When: Thursday, December 1,13:30–15:00

Where: 6th Level Auditorium

Organized by: Office of Student Affairs

The time has come for the Senior Class Giving Campaign to start action. Deree students join forces for the second year in creating their legacy before graduating, by deciding on a cause and implementing activities in order to raise the funds needed and support their goal. It is an impactful way for each graduating class to create its own legacy and pass on the culture of giving to the next generation of students.

To be part of this year’s Campaign and make a difference, join the Steering Committee! What would you choose to do?

Help your fellow students

Support a new scholarship

Fund a renovation project

Suggest your own idea

Embrace the moments you’ve spent in and out of the classroom, value what you’ve learned throughout your studies, and pay it forward!

Join us: If you are interested in being part of the Steering Committee and attending the meeting, please email the Office of Student Affairs by Wednesday, November 23.

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Debate Chairman:Dr. Andreas Andrianopoulos
Director, Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs, The American College of Greece

When: Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 6:30p.m.

Where: 17b Ipitou Street, Plaka, Athens

Organized by: Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs

For more information please contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1107

Eurosceptics:Rafail Kaliviotis: Political Scientist, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Founder & President, Network of Greek Conservatives; Policy Advisor, New Right political partyNapoleon Linardatos: Banker, New York area; Columnist, Greek daily newspaper Estia

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A lecture by: George Kreatsas
Professor of Obstrectics and Gynecology, School of Medicine
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
When: Tuesday, November 22 2016, 19:30-20:15
Where: 17b Ipitou Street, Plaka, Athens
Organized by: Institute of Public Health

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A lecture by: George Kreatsas
Professor of Obstrectics and Gynecology, School of Medicine
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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A lecture by: George Laskaris
Professor of Stomatology, School of Medicine
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
When: Tuesday, November 22 2016, 18:30-19:15
Where: 17b Ipitou Street, Plaka, Athens
Organized by: Institute of Public Health

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A lecture by: George Laskaris
Professor of Stomatology, School of Medicine
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

The seminar is ideal for students and members of the ACG community who wish to update their CV, improve their skills, and grow their businesses. The 3-hour seminar will offer insight on search engines, digital advertising, analytics, and more.

After the seminar, attendants will receive electronically a certificate of attendance.

Registration is on a first come, first served basis, and seats are limited. Register here.

Students can also create their customized lesson plan on the Grow Greek Tourism Online platform in order to benefit from Google’s training program at their own pace. After completing the program, students receive a certification signed by Google and IAB Europe.

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A lecture byDean Katerina Thomas

When: Monday, November 14, 15:00 – 15:50

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Organized by: Faculty Research Seminars 2016-17 Series

The site of Tongobriga, a Portuguese National Monument located to the east of the city of Porto, has been partly excavated by Professor Lino Dias who uncovered a number of important public spaces and buildings dating to the Roman period such as the forum and the thermae. In 2004 and for several seasons subsequently, a Brown University team under the direction of Professor Rolf Winkes and in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, focused on the exploration of a residential area, a defensive wall and a necropolis all belonging to the Castrejo culture (Castro culture). This was the characteristic pre-Roman culture in the NW part of the Iberian Peninsula. Although many Castro settlements have been identified and several have been investigated in Portugal, there is still much to learn about chronological, social and economic issues pertaining to this culture.

This lecture will provide some background information on both the Castrejo culture and Roman Portugal and will concentrate on presenting some of the important finds and preliminary conclusions of the Brown University excavations as well as a number of questions that will be eventually addressed in the study of the discovered material.

Bio

Dean Katerina Thomas received her PhD in classical archaeology from Brown University, her MA in classical archaeology from Tufts University and her BA with Honors in Mediterranean Studies and Classical Civilization from Brandeis University. Since 1988 she has been teaching Art History courses at Deree where she has also held a number of administrative positions. She is currently the Dean of the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts. K. Thomas has extensive archaeological field experience having participated in excavations at Kalavasos-Tenta and Kalavasos-Ayious in Cyprus, La Muculufa in Sicily, Lepreon in the Peloponnese, Eleusis, Kasfiki in Corfu and Tongobriga in Portugal. The archaeological project at the site of Kasfiki in Corfu (1989-1997) was a collaboration between Brown University, the Greek Archaeological Service and the University of Louvain-la-Neuve while the project at Tongobriga (2004-2009) was a collaboration between a Brown University team led by Professor Rolf Winkes and the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.

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The EUNIC Cluster Athens has the pleasure to invite you to the Conference:
“European Values Revisited: The role of culture in refugee integration into local communities”

The Conference is intended to showcase the different views and the progress on the issue of European values and discuss whether they are still identified at the core of Europe’s policies and behaviours, outpoint the challenges and their sources with emphasis to the refugee crisis and seek for ideas for actions/projects to deal with the challenges in order to safeguard and promote European values with the aim to achieve the social and cultural inclusion of refugees.

Welcome by Helena P. Maragou, PhDDirector, International Honors Program, Deree-The American College of Greece

Keynote speakers:

Pericles Vallianos, Professor at UOA, Department of Political ScienceRomed Perfler, Head of the Values and Orientation Division of the Austrian Integration FundMichael Metz-Mørch, President EUNIC

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Event Details

When: November 7–10, 2016

Where: Deree – The American College of Greece

Organized by: Office of Career Services

For 41 years we have been connecting the job market with talented candidates!

The Office of Career Services organizes a four-day Job & Internship Networking Fair, to offer students the opportunity to meet representatives of leading companies and gain the valuable experience of a short interview for current or future openings. The students will also have the chance to participate in workshops and attend interesting presentations!

Information for students:

Join mock (practice) interviews with recruiting companies and participate in presentations throughout the week to prepare for the event!” Register here!

Dimitris Keridis is a Professor of International Politics at the Panteion University of Athens. He is a senior fellow at the Konstantinos G. Karamanlis Foundation and the deputy director of the Institute of International Relations in Athens. Since 2002 he has been directing the annual Olympia Summer Academy in Politics and International Studies in Greece, and the Navarino Network, a public policy think-tank based in Thessaloniki, since 2009. He is also a regular TV political commentator.

He has served as a senior consultant at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the Constantine Karamanlis Associate Professor in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, as the director of the Kokkalis Foundation in Athens, and of the Kokkalis Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, as well as seving as a researcher at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, USA.

His latest book in English titled,The Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece, is to be reprinted and updated in 2017. His recent books in Greek include the monograph, Nationalism, Ethnic Conflicts and International Relations: Theory and Practice in the Balkans, and Constantine G. Karamanlis and the Foreign Press, and also include the editing of the collective volume Thessaloniki: A city in transition, 1912-2012.

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Organized by: Institute of Diplomacy & Global Affairs – Office of Public Affairs
International Business Society

For more information please contact: 210 600 9800 ext. 1107

His Excellency Khalid Usman Qaiser has served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to Greece since July 2016. Previously, he was Pakistan’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan & Georgia (2014-2016) and Tajikistan (2008 to 2011). During his diplomatic career of over 30 years, Qaiser has worked in various capacities in Pakistan Missions in Tunis, London, Budapest, and Berlin, before his elevation to the Ambassadorial rank in 2008.

While at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, he held various portfolios in the departments of North Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia, as well as Administration, International Conferences, and Economic Coordination.

He also served as Director General of the Foreign Service Academy in Islamabad where apart from young Pakistani diplomats, many foreign countries’ diplomats attend specialized professional diplomatic courses every year.

Ambassador Qaiser speaks English, French, Urdu, and Punjabi. He is married to Mrs. Asima Qaiser and they have two children.

Topic of Presentation: “Dynamics of South Asia”

Ambassador Qaiser will introduce the South Asian region and its dynamics. His presentation will cover the background of current challenges, and the new undercurrents. He will share his perspective on the present geo-political environment of the region that has far-reaching implications for the region and beyond. He will suggest ways to make South Asia a peaceful, stable and prosperous region going forward, and will also take questions from the audience.

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Event Details

When: Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 13:30

Where: Faculty Lounge

Organized by: English Department

Villy Tsakona
Democritus University of Thrace

Villy Tsakona is Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood, at the Democritus University of Thrace. Her research interests involve: humor research; narrative, political, and media discourse analysis; literacy theories and applications. She has co-edited Studies in Political Humor: In between Political Critique and Public Entertainment with Diana Popa (Benjamins, 2011), co-authored The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education with Argiris Archakis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and authored The Sociolinguistics of Humor: Theory, Functions, and Teaching (Grigoris Publications 2013; in Greek).

Taking into account recent pragmatic and sociolinguistic approaches to irony, my presentation will consider irony as a multifunctional discursive resource (Barbe 1995, Attardo 2000). Focusing on data coming from the Greek parliament, it seems that Greek parliamentarians employ irony to fulfill their institutional roles and to negotiate verbal rules of conduct in highly institutionalized and confrontational debates. More specifically, the analysis of the data will show that, besides criticism, parliamentary irony is used to sharpen attacks against the Opposition, to elicit vivid reactions from the audience and disaffiliate from, or align with, participants, to restore parliamentary order, and to establish cohesive ties between successive parliamentary speeches (Tsakona 2011; cf. Partington 2006, Nuolijärvi & Tiittula 2011). At the same time, the recorded reactions to irony coming from parliamentarians attending the debates reveal that irony is considered a common and ‘legitimate’ discursive practice in the Greek parliament and is not negatively evaluated by its members.